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- | S.B.W. | + | === S.B.W. |
- | Come dressed as an historical figure!!!! (If you can't do this, at | + | |
- | least come dressed).: Place - North Sydney Town Hall. | + | Come dressed as an historical figure!!!! (If you can't do this, at least come dressed). |
- | Time -5 Who cares? | + | |
- | Date - 22nd December onwards. (A Saturday, we think). | + | __Place__ |
- | 14 The Sydney Bushwalker November 1962 | + | |
- | MEET MRS. | + | __Time__ |
- | When the small apparently frail lady rose and moved across to the | + | |
- | table covered with shells, paper clippings and island bric-a-brac, | + | __Date__ |
- | thought to myself "This will be dull:" I lit my pipe and settled back to pass the time as comfortably as possible. | + | |
- | Two minutes later, I was sitting forward, pipe out and I stayed | + | __Cost__ |
- | that way for seventy minutes; Mrs. McComish' | + | |
- | She told us how her interest in nature began as a girl of five, when | + | ---- |
- | she kept bugs in boxes under her bed much to her Mother' | + | |
- | something of an obsession with her, later to dominate her life. | + | ===== Meet Mrs McComish. ===== |
- | . She married in England, but lost her husband soon after in the Great War. Her two brothers having emigrated - one to Australia, one to New Zealand - she set to work to persuade her parents to follow. Those of us who met her and came under the spell of Mrs McComish' | + | |
- | in Cairns. Not good enough: Once more she started to drip away on the parental rock - this time to visit the smaller islands - in a lugger. (She has a healthy loathing of tourist liners). Admitting to having nearly driven her parents to drink in the process, she finally got her way, but only on the condition she found a suitable travelling companion, female. Off she took | + | When the small apparently frail lady rose and moved across to the table covered with shells, paper clippings and island bric-a-brac, |
- | herself to the shipping agency where she began tcr drip on the manager - regularly - every morning. | + | |
- | All she wanted was a travelling companion - now that shn' | + | Two minutes later, I was sitting forward, pipe out and I stayed that way for seventy minutes; Mrs. McComish' |
- | Evehtually- | + | |
- | a second time to an' | + | She told us how her interest in nature began as a girl of five, when she kept bugs in boxes under her bed much to her Mother' |
- | Over the years la-s McComish has visited most of the Pacific Islands, learning about their people, studying the natural life and in particular, | + | |
- | painting the indigenous flowers. We had the opportunity of inspecting one of | + | She married in England, but lost her husband soon after in the Great War. Her two brothers having emigrated - one to Australia, one to New Zealand - she set to work to persuade her parents to follow. Those of us who met her and came under the spell of Mrs McComish' |
- | her fourteen volumes of hand paintings of these flowers, and they were really magnificent. It is of great satisfaction to nature lovers therefore to know that these fourteen volumes comprising thousands of paintings and pressed | + | |
- | flowers will eventually become the property of the Mitchell Library. | + | All she wanted was a travelling companion - now that shouldn't be difficult. Only qualification required - female, not to mind travelling in luggers or dugouts, living with natives, sleeping on the ground, travelling light, swimming creeks, collecting bugs... there should be plenty of them. |
- | November 1962 The Sydney Bushwalker 15. | + | |
- | . We were given a glitpse of life on Thursday Island (because of the large numbers of empty bottles around, Mrs. M. preferred to think of it | + | Eventually, |
- | as 'Thirsty Island). Thursday Island is the centre of an active pearling | + | |
- | industry, and, true to. form, Mrs. 14:: must know all the intimate details, so she shipped out on a pearling lugger to find out - the hard may. The trughest | + | Over the years Mrs McComish has visited most of the Pacific Islands, learning about their people, studying the natural life and in particular, painting the indigenous flowers. We had the opportunity of inspecting one of her fourteen volumes of hand paintings of these flowers, and they were really magnificent. It is of great satisfaction to nature lovers therefore to know that these fourteen volumes comprising thousands of paintings and pressed flowers will eventually become the property of the Mitchell Library. |
- | On Thursday Island, | + | |
- | Saibai. | + | We were given a glitpse of life on Thursday Island (because of the large numbers of empty bottles around, Mrs. M. preferred to think of it as Thirsty Island). Thursday Island is the centre of an active pearling industry, and, true to form, Mrs. M. must know all the intimate details, so she shipped out on a pearling lugger to find out - the hard may. The toughest |
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- | . Near Thursday Island lies Hammond Is. which is owned b:y,the.Catholic Church and used as a' | + | On Thursday Island, |
- | With the sun shining on them, the windows cast a golden amber light in wonderful patterns of circles in circles. The ever-present island breezes blowing across the open necks of 'the bottles produces inside a constant symphonic background of a thousand blending notes, | + | |
- | An inspectiOn' | + | Near Thursday Island lies Hammond Is. which is owned by the Catholic Church and used as a training school for natives. On Hammond Island |
- | Mrs M. was prevailed upon to entertain the children in return which she | + | |
- | did by demonStrating | + | With the sun shining on them, the windows cast a golden amber light in wonderful patterns of circles in circles. The ever-present island breezes blowing across the open necks of the bottles produces inside a constant symphonic background of a thousand blending notes. |
- | 16 The Sydney Bushwalker November 1962. | + | |
+ | An inspection of the school activities further amazed Mrs M. Here the native Children were being taught Western Cultures and were learning them with enthusiasm and spectacular results. On a beat-up old piano, bare wood keys and all, Mrs. M. heard a recital from a 12 year old native girl that would have done credit to any conservatorium | ||
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+ | Mrs M. was prevailed upon to entertain the children in return which she did by demonstrating | ||
Mrs. McComish has seen her Pacific Islands, including the Australian continent from end to end - not superficially as a tourist, but intimately as a friend of the inhabitants and a scientist interested in everything that lived and breathed around her. | Mrs. McComish has seen her Pacific Islands, including the Australian continent from end to end - not superficially as a tourist, but intimately as a friend of the inhabitants and a scientist interested in everything that lived and breathed around her. | ||
- | When Jack Gentle passed a vote of thanks to Mrs M., he said that this was. the most entertaining talk the club, had had the pleasure of hearing for some time. (He was obviously excluding some of our more vocal members at General Meetings). For once Jaek had everyone present right with him. | + | |
- | REPORT ON FEDERATION MEETING HELD 18.9.62. | + | When Jack Gentle passed a vote of thanks to Mrs M., he said that this was the most entertaining talk the club had had the pleasure of hearing for some time. (He was obviously excluding some of our more vocal members at General Meetings). For once Jaek had everyone present right with him. |
- | Business | + | |
- | Correspondence. | + | ---- |
- | ,Reports | + | |
- | Possible changes to the constitution of S R section to get sales tax exemption, will be considered by the S R committee, but were not viewed with favour by Federation meeting. | + | ===== Report On Federation Meeting Held 18.9.62. |
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+ | === Business | ||
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+ | The vacancy for an auditor will be left open until the member clubs have had time to deliberate on the matter. | ||
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+ | === Correspondence. | ||
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+ | Mr. Webb of Glen Davis has been troubled by unauthorised | ||
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+ | === Reports. === | ||
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+ | S. & R. A search was organised, during August for a solo walker who was 3 days overdue, but was called off at the last moment when the missing person rang S & R __from | ||
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+ | Possible changes to the constitution of S & R section to get sales tax exemption, will be considered by the S & R committee, but were not viewed with favour by Federation meeting. | ||
Paddy Pallin has made a gift of 200 ft. of rope to S & R. | Paddy Pallin has made a gift of 200 ft. of rope to S & R. | ||
- | Treasurer' | + | |
- | Social | + | === Treasurer' |
- | Tracks and Access. Messrs Melville, Dunphy and Hider are on the Lands Department committee deciding on place names for thy new Burragorang, | + | |
- | General Business. It was resolved that the Secretary should write to the " | + | The credit balance stands at £981.12.0 less about £200 liabilies. |
- | .V., | + | |
+ | === Social | ||
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+ | The annual ball was not only a great social success, but also turned in a financial profit. The final profit figure will be known next month. | ||
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+ | === Tracks and Access. | ||
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+ | Messrs Melville, Dunphy and Hilder | ||
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+ | === General Business. | ||
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+ | It was resolved that the Secretary should write to the " | ||
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At last! Lady Luck has smiled on a bushwalker. Malcolm McGregor (or was it Bobby) has won an aluminium topped speedboat complete with motor attachment and trailer on which to tow it to and from the water, for simple writing a simple slogan. | At last! Lady Luck has smiled on a bushwalker. Malcolm McGregor (or was it Bobby) has won an aluminium topped speedboat complete with motor attachment and trailer on which to tow it to and from the water, for simple writing a simple slogan. | ||
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May we expect some photographic studies on marine life, Malc? | May we expect some photographic studies on marine life, Malc? | ||
- | November 1962 The Sydney Bushwalker .17. | + | |
- | SCIENCE NATURALLY. | + | ---- |
- | Hurricanes. | + | |
- | Water occurs naturally in three states :- solid (ice), liquid (water) and gas (water vapour). Water vapour is invisible and is always present in the air. " | + | ===== Science Naturally ===== |
- | . The three different | + | |
- | So to change from one form to 'another, a Change | + | === Hurricanes. |
- | supply additional energy to the water molecules and the form Changes | + | |
- | solid to liquid. Conversely, when water changes into ice, energy is given off, and the air around is warmed up somewhat. | + | Water occurs naturally in three states:- solid (ice), liquid (water) and gas (water vapour). Water vapour is invisible and is always present in the air. " |
- | Menthe | + | |
- | When the water vapour eventually turns back into water (i e. rain) this extra energy in the water vapour is released and the air around is warmed up. "What the hell" I can hear you saying "has all this drivel got to do with hurricanes?" | + | The three different |
- | Well, if you will be patient a while longer, all, we trust, will be revealed. | + | |
- | In the doldrums just north or south of the qquator, the water vapour process | + | When the sun shines on the ocean, it warms the water and some water changes into water vapour which mixes with the air and makes it what we call humid. When the water vapour eventually turns back into water (i.e. rain) this extra energy in the water vapour is released and the air around is warmed up. "What the hell" I can hear you saying "has all this drivel got to do with hurricanes?" |
- | we just mentioned goes on at a vast rate and on' | + | |
- | the oily ocean and enormous volumes of heated air, saturated with water vapour, | + | In the doldrums just north or south of the equator, the water vapour process we just mentioned goes on at a vast rate and on a large scale. Heat waves roll over the oily ocean and enormous volumes of heated air, saturated with water vapour, rise and spiral slowly |
- | rise and spiral slowly | + | |
- | the side. -The motion'is moderate-bft on a vast scale. The earth' | + | Before long we have a column of air, perhaps 500 miles across and several miles high, spinning rough like a vast top, sucking up moist hot air, cooling it, condensing the vapour, and getting back vast quantities of heat to speed the motion up further. A hurricane has been born. The rotation of the earth causes this rapidly spinning mass to move slowly sideways along a curved path which is anticlockwise in the Northern hemisphere, clockwise in the Southern hempisphere. Thus the Atlantic hurricanes in the north first move generally in a northwest direction swing slowly around to the north east progressing at a steady speed of about 10 mph - something like a couple doing an old-time waltz. A hurricane may live as long as three or four weeks though the average life is 9 days. |
- | readhea | + | |
- | re-warming the air. This causes the air to move faster, to..spiral,quicker and the -whole process gathers momentum. | + | The winds on the outside of the hurricand are light and gusty, but increase towards the centre where they may reach a speed of 250 mph. Right in the centre of the spinning air mass is the " |
- | Before long we have a column of air; perhaps 500 miles across and several | + | |
- | miles high, spinning rough like a vast top, sucking up moist hot air, cooling it, | + | A hurricane is thus like a huge turbine. Water vapour is its fuel. It turns water vapour into water and gains a huge power bonus as a result. Liquid water in great lumps is a by-product, an unfortunate by-product - as this torrential rain dropped by the hurricane causes more damage than the actual winds. |
- | condensing the vapour, and getting back vast quantities of heat to speed the | + | |
- | motion up further. A hurricane has been born. The rotation of the earth causes | + | In one hurricane in the Phillipines in 1911, 46 inches of rain fell in 24 hours, and a total of 88 inches in 4 days. Brother, that's really rain! |
- | this rapidly spinning mass to mbvb slowly sideways along a curved path which is anticlockwise in the Northern hemisphere, clockwise in the Southern hempisphere. Thus the Atlantic hurricanes in the north first move generally in a northwest direction swing slowly around to the north east progressing at a steady speed of about 10 mph - something like a couple doing an old-time waltz. A hurricane | + | |
- | may live as long as three or four weeks though the average life is 9 days. | + | |
- | The winds on the outside of the hurricand are light and gusty, but increase towards the centre where they may reach a speed of 250 mph. Right in the centre of the spinning air m5ss'is the " | + | |
- | 18 The Sydney Bushwalker November 1962 | + | |
- | vepy low pressure and almost still air about 14 miles across. While the hurricane remains over the ocean it continues to pick up water vapour, and thus energy to keep it going, but over land, it gradually dies away, though this may take days due to its huge momentum. | + | |
- | A hurricanPis | + | |
- | Liquid water in great lumps is a by-product, an unfortunate by-product- as | + | |
- | this torrential rain dropped by the hurricane causes more damage than the actual winds. | + | |
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Hurricanes are also known in various localities as typhoons and cyclones. A tornado is something quite different however. | Hurricanes are also known in various localities as typhoons and cyclones. A tornado is something quite different however. | ||
- | Letter to the Editor of a rival Publication (Comes out every morning | + | |
- | Pollution of the Elouera Reserve. | + | ---- |
- | Sir, C.E. Tackrah says that effluent from the new Mona Vale Hospital | + | |
- | is to be run into Warriewood Beach (" | + | ===== Letter to the Editor of a rival Publication (Comes out every morning). ===== |
- | Effluent from a Government institution which will house a large number (perhaps | + | |
- | Is a reserve, set aside for the recreation of the people, available by | + | === Pollution of the Elouera Reserve. |
- | a decision of two or three Government | + | |
- | even if, in the final process, it is said to be purified? Does such use come within the framework of the original purpose - public recreation - for which the reserve was set aside? | + | Sir, |
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+ | C.E. Tackrah says that effluent from the new Mona Vale Hospital is to be run into Warriewood Beach (" | ||
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+ | Effluent from a Government institution which will house a large number (perhaps | ||
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+ | Is a reserve, set aside for the recreation of the people, available by a decision of two or three Government | ||
R.C. Dickens, | R.C. Dickens, | ||
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Hon.Sec. Asquith-Hornsby Fauna and Flora Protection Society. | Hon.Sec. Asquith-Hornsby Fauna and Flora Protection Society. | ||
- | Of all cliches trust this the least | + | |
- | "The squeaking wheel is soonest greased." | + | ---- |
- | squeaked, all right, but what a waste: I wasn't greased, I was replaced. | + | |
- | November 1962 The Sydney Bushwalker 19 THE AGONISTIC STRUGGLE. | + | Of all cliches trust this the least -\\ |
+ | "The squeaking wheel is soonest greased." | ||
+ | I squeaked, all right, but what a waste!\\ | ||
+ | I wasn't greased, I was replaced. | ||
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+ | THE AGONISTIC STRUGGLE. | ||
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The Greek games p1ayers4 the agonistals, were men selected to show their ability in games, the nature of which was such that the loser had a fair chance of not hearing another play by Aristophanes.- The gaizs were in fact little wars, The increasing status of games, at all levels of participation and exertion, in the last several centuries is derived from the Greek games.. Most games are,still little wars but the avoidance of death has been replaced by the avoidance of defeat to the increased longevity of sportsmen. In certain games, essentially the "body contact" | The Greek games p1ayers4 the agonistals, were men selected to show their ability in games, the nature of which was such that the loser had a fair chance of not hearing another play by Aristophanes.- The gaizs were in fact little wars, The increasing status of games, at all levels of participation and exertion, in the last several centuries is derived from the Greek games.. Most games are,still little wars but the avoidance of death has been replaced by the avoidance of defeat to the increased longevity of sportsmen. In certain games, essentially the "body contact" |
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